Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p (307261) 2002 MS4 is a large trans-Neptunian object (TNO), the second-largest known object in the Solar system without a name after 2007 OR10. It was discovered in 2002 by Chad Trujillo and Michael E. Brown. It is classified as a cubewano by the Minor Planet Center.Mike Brown's website lists it as nearly certain to be a dwarf planet. The Spitzer Space Telescope estimated it to have a diameter of 726±123 km. The Herschel team estimates it to be 934±47 km, which would make it one of the 10 largest TNOs currently known,and large enough to be considered a (dwarf) planet under the 2006 draft proposal of the IAU.It is currently 47.2 AU from the Sun, and will come to perihelion around 2122.It has been observed 46 times, with precovery images back to 1954.. }
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- (307261)_2002_MS4 abstract "(307261) 2002 MS4 is a large trans-Neptunian object (TNO), the second-largest known object in the Solar system without a name after 2007 OR10. It was discovered in 2002 by Chad Trujillo and Michael E. Brown. It is classified as a cubewano by the Minor Planet Center.Mike Brown's website lists it as nearly certain to be a dwarf planet. The Spitzer Space Telescope estimated it to have a diameter of 726±123 km. The Herschel team estimates it to be 934±47 km, which would make it one of the 10 largest TNOs currently known,and large enough to be considered a (dwarf) planet under the 2006 draft proposal of the IAU.It is currently 47.2 AU from the Sun, and will come to perihelion around 2122.It has been observed 46 times, with precovery images back to 1954.".